cardboard frenzy part 2

oh saya sungguh senang sekali. bermain-main dengan kardus indomi XD

Azreen, the talented Malaysian illustrator asked me to join her project of Nutcracker and Ballerina :D Here's my submission : (can't wait to see the other artists' pieces XD)

Marker outlines. I'm currently into babooshkas, and since the Nutcracker tale is originally from Russia, here it is :)

Added some colours to make it prettier

Experimenting with bokeh in Photoshop. Not very sure about this. Edited or non-edited version? Which one do you prefer? :D

メリークリスマス!

And may God bless us everyone :)

December gone too soon

It's hard to feel Christmas spirit with deadlines around -_-"
But these made my Christmas this year :D

A bunch of Christmas cards from friends all over the world! XD

Postcards from the talented Lauren Carney

Cute Christmas card from Audelia Agustine

A beautiful hand-drawn card by my buddy blogger, Sara :D

Nothing can beat the feeling of receiving a handwritten Christmas card :D

A surprise gift from my best friend Jeannie Lesmanawati, an Orla Kiely travel journal yay! XD

This is also from my best friend Betty, what's Christmas without a gingerbread cookie? :D

Actually i'm beginning to feel a bit sad that today is already Dec 24, only 6 days left of December. Without any special reason, December has been my favourite month every year. Well maybe because you can feel holiday spirit dangling in the air :p

Today and tomorrow i'm going to have a break from work. Last year i have to work on Christmas and New Year, am not going to repeat the same mistake this year :p *what, what deadlines?* :))

Have a joyful Christmas and a happy holiday everyone! :D

this cold, cold town.

And thus she was born into this cold cold town, between the not-so-bright lights and colourful dreams. Just a personal work :)

Annddd, by the way, we have a giveaway winner here! :D There were 16 comments, i will list the names below from the first one commenting on the post to the last, hope i don't miss anyone :)

1. Andi Lia
2. Sam
3. Kartika Paramita (karena komennya masuk dobel aku itung satu aja ya :D)
4. Aphrodita Wibowo
5. Lia
6. Amalia K
7. Thisisrizka
8. Perez
9. Debtstvnie (ini juga komennya masuk dobel aku itung satu aja ya :D)
10. Paramita Vidia
11. Wulandari
12. Abigail Angela
13. Feliciana Lentini
14. Josephine
15. Raras
16. Yola > ini khusus karena kesalahan teknis dia ndak bisa komen di blog, tapi udah kirim private message buat sayah :D

I wrote the numbers on pieces of paper and ask my sister to pick one with her eyes closed XD
and we have...*drumroll* number 5 as the winner! :D


Mbak Lia, please send your postal address to cecillia.hidayat@yahoo.com :D
And thank you for all of you that have participated :D

cardboard frenzy and another giveaway :)

I'm currently in love with cardboards XD Had tons of fun drawing on them hehe! :D
*anak kampung norak dapet mainan baru* hihihi

Babooshkas are always fun to draw! :D

It's Christmas season so say hi to the little drummer boy and his sheep :)
This is a gift for a friend

Owls. Never got bored of them. Strange.

A huge strawberry jelly, surely will make your Christmas jolly! :D
The original artwork of this one was also sent to a friend, i hope she'll be happy receiving it XD

And last but not least, not a manekineko but....maneki usagi! (Because 2011 is the year of rabbit, so let this maneki usagi brings prosperity to all of you!) haha :p

I reprint this one as a New Year postcard. And guess what...i'm feeling generous at this last time of the year! :D I'm gonna send this along with the Overlapping Memories postcard series to one lucky person commenting on this post. This time, i'll pick randomly :D Oh and please drop your email also on the comment so i can contact you easily for the postal address :)

I'll be waiting until December 18th :)

planned to be a family tree :)

We started December with another mural yay! :D
Our client, Risna and Angga, wants to paint their daughter's room with a tree and animals around it. And since Angga is a photographer, they want to be able to stick family pictures on the tree. So this is what we came up with :)

yummy colours look alot like smoothies sometimes i can't resist to lick them :p

my partner in crime :)

oh yeah owls and monkeys are always the mandatories

We named this monkey "Osaru"

And the bat is called by the name "Vladimir", and the bunny trio are "Pierre, Ellie and Jean Louise" :p

This is Draco Malfoy the owl hahah

On the left edge, there's Soffia Coppola the elephant, Bung Karno the chameleon, and Shugo the lion. Please don't ask where the names come from. We just thought they're...cute. no? :D

(oh and the foxie foxes are known by the name "Mpo" and "Joko" :))

hurrah! :D

a big, special thanks to Audelia Agustine :)

spark your December...

.....with the Sparkapolooza's giveaway! :D woohoo!
Check the details here :D

And be sure to join the fun in their latest brief, it's beginning to feel alot like Christmas! :D

Entries close on Thursday, 16th Dec 2010 and one lucky winner will be picked randomly, open for international readers as well.

So what are you waiting for? :)

a confession

Some people ask, why my drawings are twisted. No, i'm not trying to build a different image of me amongst other illustrators. Well, if you must know the truth, i have so many darkness inside me. Too many that i have to let them out or they'll start killing me slowly from the inside.

.......i hope you're all still my friends after reading this *puppy eyes* :)
oh and by the way, happy December! Christmas is on it's way :D

day 30 - finale :)

phew! akhirnya kelar juga :D trimakasih banyak buat dukungannya ya! Dan makasih buat mbak Lala yang udah ngajak ikutan proyek ini! :D

In some ways, doing this challenge has kept me sane this last 30 days :)

day 29 - place you want to go

to the Arctic to see the Aurora and polar bears, and to feel the floating, weak-in-the-knee feeling, happiness you cannot contain that you feel it doesn't matter if it is the last seconds of your life XD

day 28 - anything you'd like

since i'm free to draw anything i'd like, here's another sheep comic :p

day 27-someone you love

There are too many people in my life i love dearly that sometimes i forget to include myself on the list. I once promised myself not to let anything do a damage to my heart, and from now on i'll try harder to keep that promise :)

*hari ini egois dikit boleh ya* :D

day 26-something you don't like

i.don't.like.being.cynically.interrogated.period.
(sorry, too lazy to translate this one to English hehe) :p

Hongkong cafe

Again, thank you Angela Ferany for the opportunity. And especially, thank you for believing in me, more than i do myself :)

I was thrilled when being asked to do the mural designs for
Hongkong Cafe.
A big project involving seven big walls inside the restaurant, and an art-loving owner, those were enough to increase the "can-i-really-do-this" feeling deep inside *yes, damn you insecurities* :p

The outlet in Jalan Sunda

The previously very-nice-mural (and i had to do better than this >.<)

Sketches, layouts, references, colour guides, grids, all in approximately 2 months work

And finally, we started to paint the walls! Big thanks for mas Doy and team, they're the ones who transferred the designs onto the walls and i just do some supervision heheheh :p (We're lucky to have mas Doy on the team because he worked superfast, much more faster than i usually do when painting walls >.<, and plus i don't have the guts to climb and paint the main dining wall hahahah)

Aaannnddd after approximately 2 weeks of execution..... *drumroll*
this is it :)

Main-dining wall design

Non-smoking area design

Smoking area wall design

Corridor wall design

Private room wall design

First floor wall design

Stairs

And these are the life-sized results :

Main dining

Smoking and non-smoking area

Corridor

Private room

Stairs

View from the outside

Phew! XD
Do visit Hongkong Cafe guys, they have a seriously good food there nomnom! :D